Towns in New Mexico
Reference | General |
Abiquiu
| Albuquerque | Arroyo
Hondo | Arroyo Seco |
Carlsbad | Chama
| Chimayo |
Cloudcroft
| Clovis |
Cordova | Corrales |
Deming
| Dixon | Dona
Ana | El Rito | Española
|
Gallup | Grants
|
Hobbs
| Las Cruces | Las
Trampas | Las Vegas
| Los Alamos | Los
Cerrillos | Madrid | Magdalena
| Mesilla |
Peñasco
| Quemado |
Ranchos de Taos | Red River |
Roswell | Santa
Fe | Santa Rosa |
Silver
City | Socorro |
Taos
| Tierra Amarilla | Truchas
| Tucumcari | Tularosa
For students and faculty in the SMU-in-Taos program, this list provides a starting point for information in the Fort Library on the towns of New Mexico. In PONI, search the name of the town as subject to find other resources. Journals are shelved alphabetically by title, without call numbers.
The resources listed below are available in
FBL. Also in the Fort Library, see also the binders
of Regional Information on shelves near the
Staff Desk.
For related Internet sites, see the State, City, National section of the WWW Links pages.
Fodor’s New Mexico (brief
descriptions of most towns)
Historical Atlas of New Mexico (1969)
New Mexico in Maps (1986)
New Mexico Place Names (1965)
Registered Places of New Mexico (1995)
Stories Behind the Street Names of Albuquerque,
Santa Fe, and Taos (1994)
Country Towns of New Mexico (includes
Aztec, Chama, Ramah, Zuni, Magdalena,
Truth or
Consequences, Mesilla, Lincoln, Pecos, Cimmarron, and Fort Sumner.)
"Patterns of History," (aerial
photographs of New Mexican towns, depicting
patterns
of settlement; includes Nambe, Chimayó, El Cerrito, Peñasco,
Las Trampas,
Madrid,
and Truchas), New Mexico Magazine, 62:11 (November
1984)
Community Profiles from the New Mexico Economic
Development Department , see
http://www.edd.state.nm.us/index.php?/data/C49/
Georgia O’Keeffe at Ghost Ranch
Ghost Ranch, Land of Light
Albuquerque: A Celebration of Contrasts(1996)
An Albuquerque Bibliography (1980)
"Albuquerque, New Mexico, or Anywhere USA?:
Historic Preservation
and the Construction of
Civic Identity," in New Mexico Historical
Review , 74:2 (April
1999)
City at the End of the World (1992)
"Old Town: The Locals are Rediscovering Albuquerque's
First Neighborhood," New
Mexico Magazine,
78:6 (June 2000)
Pueblo on the Mesa: the First Fifty Years
at the University of New Mexico (1989)
Route 66 Across New Mexico
The Urban Southwest: A Profile History
of Albuquerque, El Paso, Phoenix
and Tucson (1982)
Fiction set in Albuquerque:
Alburquerque (Anaya;
note author’s historical spelling of city name)
Rio Grande Fall (Anaya)
Zia Summer (Anaya)
Arroyo Hondo (1999)
Out of Time: Arroyo Seco, An Historic Look
at a 250 Year Old
Northern New
Mexico Village
"New Mexico Weekend--Carlsbad," New Mexico Magazine, 65:12 (December 1987)
Española-Chama, Taos (Geologic
Scenic Trips series)
Excavations in the Chama Valley
Country Towns of New Mexico (chapter
2)
Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad: the
Historic Preservation Study (see also
guide in
this series on Railroads)
"Ganados del Valle: A Venture in Self-Sufficiency,"
New
Mexico Magazine, 63:9 (September 1985)
Chimayó Valley Traditions
"On the Road to Chimayó," New
Mexico Magazine, 67:3 (March 1989)
Sabino’s Map: Life in Chimayó's
Old Plaza
[El] Santuario: Un
Alto on the "High Road to Taos"
[El] Santuario de
Chimayó
"Cloudcroft at the Centennial," New Mexico Magazine, 77:6 (June 1999)
"Chalk Dust Trails: Clovis Schools in the
1920s, (Dickey, Roland F.), New
Mexico Magazine,
64:1 (January 1986)
Wood Carvers of Córdova
Corrales: Portrait of a Changing Village(1980)
"Deming: Border Boomtown," New Mexico Magazine, 77:11 (November 1999)
Garlic Testament: Seasons on a Small New Mexico Farm (author's personal experiences)
"Historic Village Tries to Stop the Clock," New Mexico Magazine, 68:7 (July 1990)
"El Rito Church: Where People Make the Difference," New Mexico Magazine, 64:2 (February 1986)
Española-Chama-Taos (Geologic
Scenic Trips series)
New Mexico: Voices in an Ancient Landscape
"Gallup on Foot," New Mexico Magazine,
74: 4 (May 1996)
Greetings from Gallup: Six Decades of
Route 66
See also Route 66 Across New Mexico
Grants
See Route 66 Across
New Mexico
"Hobbs: An Oil Town Revisited," in New Mexico Magazine, 74:19 (November 1996)
"Border Book Festival," New Mexico Magazine,
77:3 (March 1999)
Las Cruces: An Illustrated History
Las Cruces, New Mexico, 1849-1999: Multi-cultural
Crossroads (2000)
"Year-long Fiesta "[150th celebration],
New
Mexico Magazine, 77:7 (July 1999)
River of Traps: A Village Life (author's personal experiences)
Gateway to Glorieta: A History of Las Vegas, New Mexico
See library guide in this series on New Mexico and the Atomic Age
"Los Cerrillos: Historic 'Ghost Town' Still Kickin'", New Mexico Magazine, 78:10 (October 2000)
Madrid Revisited: Life and Labor in a New
Mexican Mining Camp in the
Years of the Great
Depression (1976)
"Magdalena: Fledgling Art Colony Could Revitalize
Community," New Mexico
Magazine, 77:10
(October
1999)
"Magdalena's Old-Timers' Reunion," New
Mexico Magazine, 78:7 (July 2000)
"Magdalena's Salome Store: A Living Link
to Cowtown Days," New Mexico Magazine, 77:4 (April
1999)
Pioneers of the Mesilla Valley
"La Mesilla: Treasure of the Acequia Madre,"
New
Mexico Magazine,
77:3 (March
1999)
Planning for Economic Development of Rural
Northern New Mexico,
with Emphasis on the
Peñasco Valley, Taos County (1988)
"Nobody's a Stranger in Quemado," New Mexico Magazine, 67:3 (March 1989)
Ranchos de Taos: Saint Francis of Asis
Church
Spirit and Vision: Images of the Ranchos
de Taos Church
The Enchanted Circle: Loop Drives from
Taos
Red River-Twining Area: A New Mexico Mining
Story
Fifty Years of Roswell History (1964)
UFO Crash at Roswell
Curator of the Santa Fe Style: Isaac Hamilton
Rapp, Architect
Myth of Santa Fe
Old Santa Fe Today
Santa Fe: A Pictorial History
Santa Fe: History of an Ancient City
Santa Fe and Taos, 1898-1942: An American
Cultural Center
Santa Fe and Taos Colonies: Age of the
Muses, 1900-1942
Santa Fe and Taos: the Writers’ Era, 1916-1941
Santa Fe Indian Market
In the Fort Library, see also
binders on Regional Information on shelves near Library staff desk.
"Santa Rosa: City Still Gets Kicks along Old
Route 66," New Mexico
Magazine, 77:10
(October
1999)
Route 66 Across New Mexico
Built to Last: An Architectural History …
Territorial History of Socorro, New Mexico
See library guides in this series
on
Taos |
Literature:
D. H. Lawrence and Friends
Grito! Reies Tijerina and the New Mexico
Land Grant War of 1967
Mi Abuela Fumaba Puros y Otros Cuentos
de Tierra Amarilla/My Grandma Smoked
Cigars and Other Stories
of Tierra Amarilla (Ulibarri)
Tierra Amarilla: Its History, Architecture
and Cultural Landscape
Tierra Amarilla Grant
Truchas: Village with a View, Life in a Spanish Village
Tucumcari
See Route 66 Across
New Mexico
Tularosa: Last of the Frontier West
(Sonnichsen)